Technical Director’s Log – June 5, 2019
The Charleston Academy 15s team played its penultimate tournament of the Juniors season over the weekend while dealing with some personnel issues.
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The Charleston Academy 15s team played its penultimate tournament of the Juniors season over the weekend while dealing with some personnel issues.
A reader asks a question about dealing with a new playoff system and how it may impact their allocation of playing time to back-ups and bench players.
After some interesting weeks of practice - for both good and bad reasons - the team was back in action over the weekend in a regionally-oriented tournament.
There are different types of skills in volleyball - precise vs. improvisational. Training them each requires a different approach.
It's not enough to just try harder - as either a player or a coach. It takes deliberate practice to improve. How can you put that concept to work?
A volleyball team is a collection of relationships. A whole lot of relationsihps! Do we give this enough thought and attention?
There are some significant drawbacks to playing games - especially scored ones. With some thought, though, we can work around them to our benefit.
It's easy to place blame on players for their lacking in things like coachability and mental toughness, but to do so is a form of hypocrisy.
Above and beyond all our coaching priorities we must also account for the priorities of the players when planning and running our sessions.